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Rules of Origin and the Web of East Asian Free Trade Agreements

Manchin, Miriam - 2016

The authors provide an overview of the preferential rules of origin in East Asia, highlighting the aspects that might possibly generate some trade-chilling effects. They review characteristics of existing preferential trade agreements with special emphasis on lessons from the European...

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Trade Integration in East Asia : The Role of China and Production Networks

Haddad, Mona - 2016

Production networks have been at the heart of the recent growth in trade among East Asian countries. Fragmentation trade, reflected mainly in the trade in parts and components, is expanding more rapidly than the conventional trade in final goods. This is mainly due to the relatively more...

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Assessing Innovation Patterns and Constraints in Developing East Asia : An Introductory Analysis

Iootty, Mariana - 2019

This paper sheds light on key innovation patterns and constraints within a selected set of developing East Asian countries (Cambodia, China, Indonesia, the Lao People's Democratic Republic, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Thailand, and Vietnam). It follows a comprehensive approach about...

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On the Allocation of Resources in Developing East Asia and Pacific

De Nicola, Francesca - 2018

Over the past decades, East Asia and Pacific's productivity has been gradually catching up with the frontier (the … United States), with China leading the pack. Productivity growth has been driven by sustained within-sector productivity … growth. Reallocation of labor to sectors with higher productivity, such as industry and services, also contributed to …

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Trade in Developing East Asia : How it Has Changed and Why it Matters

Constantinescu, Ileana Cristina - 2018

evolution of comparative advantage and productivity in each country. The third is the divergence between the relatively shallow … global value chains as crucial drivers of productivity growth …

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The Financial Costs of the U.S.-China Trade Tensions : Evidence from East Asian Stock Markets

De Nicola, Francesca - 2019

This paper examines the impacts of U.S.-China trade tensions via the lens of East Asian stock markets. Studying 10 indices of the main East Asian stock markets, it finds that announcements of "trade war" escalation translated into 50 to 60 percent of the total declines in two major Chinese stock...

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Technology Adoption and the Middle-Income Trap : Lessons from the Middle East and East Asia

Arezki, Rabah - 2019

This paper documents the existence of a "middle-income trap" for the Middle East and North Africa region. It argues that the economic woes of the Middle East and North Africa offer new insights into the debate on the trap which has thus far focused on the East Asia and Pacific region. The...

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Crisis and Contagion in East Asia : Nine Lessons

Kawai, Masahiro - 2017

The authors investigate the origins of the East Asian crisis and its contagion, examine the channels of contagion, and discuss policy recommendationsThey make detailed recommendations in the context of nine general lessons learned from the East Asian crisis. 1) Preventing crises and contagion:...

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Labor Migration and Economic Growth in East and Southeast Asia

Walmsley, Terrie L. - 2017

East and Southeast Asia face major demographic changes over the next few decades as many countries' labor forces will start to decline, while others will experience higher labor force growth as populations and participation rates increase. A well-managed labor migration strategy presents itself...

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Jobless Growth? Okun's Law in East Asia

Hanusch, Marek - 2017

Was economic growth in East Asia jobless? This paper addresses this question using data from eight East Asian countries during the period between 1997 and 2011 to estimate the Okun's Law Coefficient, which captures the relationship between growth and employment. The analysis suggests that growth...

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